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What was the homestead act?
Gave settlers 160 acres, required settlers to improve land, Pres. Lincoln signed it, women could own land
Explain the Chinese Exclusion Act
US law to ban immigration based on race, prohibiting all Chinese from entering the US for 10 years, barring Chinese from citizenship
What was Ellis Island during the Gilded Age?
A processing center for incoming European immigrants arriving in New York.
What is Nativism?
An anti-immigrant movement during a period of high immigration in the late 19th century.
How were the Chinese treated during the era?
Discriminated against
Why did workers strike during the time period?
wanted better pay, shorter hours, and better working conditions
What did the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire accomplish?
Sweeping reforms on work place safety.
What business was Cornelius Vanderbilt in?
Railroad and shipping
What business was Andrew Carnegie in?
Steel
What business was John Rockefeller in?
Oil
What business was JP Morgan in?
Banking/finance
Who invented the airplane?
Wright Brothers
Who invented the camera?
George Eastman
Who invented the Bessemer process?
Henry Bessemer
Who invented the elevator?
Elisha Otis
Who invented the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
What is horizontal integration?
A company that buys competitors to grow their company
What is vertical intergration?
A business who buys another company that is above or below them on the production line
Describe a tenement.
a small and cramped apartment, usually substandard
What is a robber baron?
a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th centur
What is a melting pot?
A society where different types of people blend together as one-America
How did the Transcontinental Railroad affect the United States?
Expanded populations, new towns, connected the east and west, opened up new jobs
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